{"id":14527,"date":"2018-03-03T18:45:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14527"},"modified":"2018-03-03T18:45:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T00:45:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/03\/word-of-the-day-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Stochastic<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The word stochastic is an adjective in English that describes something that was randomly determined. The word first appeared in English to describe a mathematical object called a stochastic process, but now in mathematics the terms stochastic process and random process are considered interchangeable. The word, with its current definition meaning random, came from German, but it originally came from Greek \u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03c7\u03bf\u03c2 (stokhos), meaning &#8216;aim, guess&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The term stochastic is used in many different fields, particularly where stochastic or random processes are used to represent systems or phenomena that seem to change in a random way. Examples of such fields include the physical sciences such as biology, chemistry, ecology, neuroscience and physics as well as technology and engineering fields such as image processing, signal processing, information theory, computer science, cryptography and telecommunications. It is also used in finance, due to seemingly random changes in financial markets. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stochastic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Arts Editor mentioned she didn&#8217;t know what <em>stochastic<\/em> meant. Here it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stochastic: The word stochastic is an adjective in English that describes something that was randomly determined. The word first appeared in English to describe a mathematical object called a stochastic process, but now in mathematics the terms stochastic process and random process are considered interchangeable. The word, with its current \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/03\/word-of-the-day-328\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14528,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions\/14528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}